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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe

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Wildlife Trust BCN @wildlifebcn.org · 05/10/2026

🥳We are very excited to see work starting on one of our biggest ever wetland restoration sites. Now, after lots of planning and preparation, the diggers have arrived to turn an area almost the size of Hyde Park into a thriving wetland. Read more here www.wildlifebcn.org/news/work-st...

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Excellent short piece here with wise words from @markknight63.bsky.social Back in February 2016, I was lucky enough to visit the site of excavations there. The quality of the archaeology (and of the archaeological investigation) has stayed with me.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 04/10/2026

This #WorldAnimalDay, spare a thought for some often less-appreciated animals: insects! Incredibly useful to archaeologists, preserved insect remains can teach us how spaces were used in the past, from food storage to burial. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

24 segments of insect carapaces, alongside illustrations of the insects they come from.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know I'm biased, but to my mind, the results of the #FlagFen Auger Survey are equivalent to the mapping of #Doggerland - once elusive submerged landscapes made palpable! #FenlandPrehistory

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a way to end the first week at the start of first year in archaeology at Birkbeck! The dynamics of hoarding with Eleanor Ghey, and handling and coin stories with Elina Screen! Archaeology, it’s important! Many thanks to such incredible colleagues at the British Museum. @eleanorghey.bsky.social

Looking at the Snettisham Jeweller’s Hoard in the British Museum. The pot surrounded by the rings, gems and clippings.

Elina passing around a coin with Harold one way, and a coin with William the other, and telling us that Pax was stamped on the Harold coin.

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And Tasha Fullbrook on the importance of the Portable Antiquities Scheme!

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know I'm biased, but to my mind, the results of the #FlagFen Auger Survey are equivalent to the mapping of #Doggerland - once elusive submerged landscapes made palpable! #FenlandPrehistory

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The model created from the Flag Fen auger survey shows that the basin around the post-alignment has a gentle gradient across its western half, beside a deeper 250-300m wide “valley” across the eastern half. This eastern deeper, wetter zone corresponds to the location of the Flag Fen platform.

The deposit model created during the Flag Fen auger survey, with differing colours indicating the variations in depth across the Flag Fen basin.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes, the auger is mightier than the trowel!

Diagram showing the relationship between archaeology of the accessible fen-edge and the deeply buried archaeology of the Fenland Basin. A 4'' WHS pointing trowel being suitable for close to the surface sites, whereas the Dutch auger is much better suited when it comes to characterising the Holocene sequence.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes, the auger is mightier than the trowel!

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...

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Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’

Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Dutch auger was 'made' for the #FlagFenBasin - the largely soft, cohesive sediments of #Fenland made characterising the deposit sequence relatively straightforward and most of the auger holes located remnants of an old land surface buried beneath the silts and peat.

Image of the deposit sequence gained from the Flag Fen Basin. Chalk board shows Auger Hole 97 and nearby the hole left by the auger

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To gather the information needed to build a model the auger survey used a grid 1100m x 500m spaced at 50m intervals across the Flag Fen post alignment corridor. Starting at Fengate to the West and ending at Northey Island to the east a total of 200 points were hand augered. Photo: Emma Bothamley

A group of archaeologists carrying out an auger survey, removing the auger from the ground.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Old school analogue methodology, tons of enthusiasm and a simple research question: what was the topography and deposit sequence of the Flag Fen Basin at the time of the Flag Fen post alignment?

Badge: Flag Fen Auger Survey 2025 (green circle, white back ground and an image of a Dutch auger)

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Old school analogue methodology, tons of enthusiasm and a simple research question: what was the topography and deposit sequence of the Flag Fen Basin at the time of the Flag Fen post alignment?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love the legalese bunkum. Apparently, attaching something to someone else's property, without permission, means they can't take it off or it's theft/criminal damage. It would be terrible if someone, who knows where this prick parks, filled his windscreen with RNLI stickers, to test the principle.

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Firth of Clyde, view from the other side for @richardmortimer.bsky.social

Sun through grey sky on a grey sea, with porpoise.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Similar experience digging the Must Farm logboats - freezing temperatures, ice, buckets of water and sponges - fingers turning bluey red and 'screaming' with pain! Happy days!

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's hoping we can employ them with similar artistry and precision..

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bamboo spatulas or digging sticks - ideal for digging later Bronze Age pile alignments and beautiful objects to boot! tasuki-japan.com

Archaeological tools: pile of machine finished bamboo spatulas with pointed and bevelled ends

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Daily Rothno is The Sound and Isle of Arran #aofoto

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bamboo spatulas or digging sticks - ideal for digging later Bronze Age pile alignments and beautiful objects to boot! tasuki-japan.com

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Memories of Ardeer - There are still some tickets left, come join us at the Scottish Maritime Museum this Saturday, morning drop-in or afternoon ticketed Brew&Blether with me and @linda83ross.bsky.social! #Ardeer #Ivine #CommunityHeritage www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000317866...

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Memories of Ardeer

Brew & Blether - A space to reminisce about family members and friends who worked at the Ardeer.

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ardeer Nature - There are still some tickets left, come join us at the Scottish Maritime Museum this Sunday, guided walk and eco-poetry with photographer @alexanderboyd.bsky.social and poet Gerry Cambridge. Get tickets here 👇 #Ardeer #Irvine #CommunityHeritage www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000318947...

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Ardeer Nature Creative Workshop

Take photos of nature on a guided walk overlooking Ardeer with photographer Alex Boyd and poet Gerry Cambridge. Site-writing and eco-poetry.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Exactly. Some of us are trying to keep it 'as is'.

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Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Do you know @thescottishcrannog.bsky.social artefacts excavations of Oakbank Crannog have been recognised as Nationally Significant, including 2500 year old fabrics. Real privilege to present on behalf of @archscot.bsky.social on Why Archaeology Matters At This Time? as part of #ScotArchMonth

Side of crannog walkway overlooking Loch

View out of crannog door to distant thatched buildings

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Project #FlintFinder is underway. Meanwhile we have documented the first batches of Doggerland lithics through standardised photography. Many more to come! #FlintFriday #FindsFriday

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“This is an opinion column. It usually runs to 1,000 words. Eight hundred of them have been spent naming ordinary things Israel has illegally denied the people of Gaza. I could fill another column and still not exhaust the list.” ~Colin Sheridan

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Holme Post, Holme Fen #Fenland

Cast iron post, painted green and standing in birch woodland at -2.75m OD

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wear it with pride

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*26th and 27th September* Come and share photographs and memories of Ardeer, drop-in and brew & blether, joined by historian @linda83ross.bsky.social! Or go on our guided walk and eco-poetry session on nature at Ardeer with photographer @alexanderboyd.bsky.social and poet Gerry Cambridge!

Poster showing photographs of women hand mixing dynamite and the workers' canteen in the sunshine before the building was pulled down.

Poster showing ruined factory brick building in the snow amongst important dune scrub habitats.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Recognising funding is finite, Richard Brunning put together a list of the most important wetland sites, sites he thought we should prioritise - Flag Fen featured in his top five. It's a beginning....

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The funding will enable the excavation of a large section of the Flag Fen post-alignment. The western half of the monument cannot be preserved. The condition of the wood is very poor but still contains vital information for understanding the site, its setting and context within the Flag Fen Basin.

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Precisely Richard! If we do this thing properly there will be a whole new set of questions about Flag Fen, the Flag Fen Basin and the Bronze Age. To quote the author Nan Shepherd 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing'

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A chance to excavate the pile-alignment at a scale commensurate with its size & setting, as well as gain a better understanding of its context. And all of this in light of the work carried out at Must Farm and Horsey Bridge. Can't wait to show you what we've found!

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

##BlueSkyArtShow #Undulating The Fen Basin (after Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures)

Black & white peak map of the Fen Basin, Eastern England

https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map/?fbcl...#7.68/47.727/-122.574

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

From strategic approaches, community action and archaeology for all, to grass roots sustainability. And we got to celebrate the work of 30 years of Adopt-a-Monument. Archaeology, it’s important!

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm currently failing Norman Tebbit's cricket test - willingly willing on Pakistan 🇵🇰 to do a Headingly!

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